
JAPANESE FUR SEALING 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
Frontispiece 
Summary ea e * e e * e e ° . * . e e * * . e . e . * s e 
Introduction. . ..seecewececanceeees 
Ancient History .. 2... 2 eee ee eae 
Japenese Sesling From 1890 to 1910. . . 2. we ee we ee 
Japanese Sealing Under the Treaty, 1911-41. ...... 
Japanese Sealing From 1942 to 1945. ... 2 eee see 
The Fur Seal Problem in Post-Surrender Japan. ...s « 
The Fur Seal in Japan . 
l. Distribution. . 2. «ee eo @ eee © e@ © @ @ @ 
2. Abundance . . «6 se ee we os “ee ®# © © @ © © @ 
3. Food Habite . © © © @ @ © @ eo ee we we we ew ee 
Nodern Japenese Pelagic Sealing eee © © © @ © Be 8 ® 
1. Hunting Procedures. ... ee ececrvr cee cecveneveve 
Ze Present-Day Poaching. . .. + se eee eevee ne 
Appendixes 
A. Japanese Statutes on Fur Seal Protection and Proposed 
B. Japanese Fur Seal Statistica. . . «sees eevee 
C. Japanese Estimetes of Damge Caused by Fur Seals. 
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Figures 
1. The Fur Seal, Male and Female .... se ce oe « 
Ze Early Drawing of "Takeri" . . . 2. 2. ee ee scene 
3. The For Seal (Ottosei). . 2. 2 eee ee ee veoe 
4. Karly Woodcut of Fur Seal Floating in the Sea , . 
§. Farly Woodeut of Fur Seal... . «2 0 se © 0 2 
6. Hunting Fur Seals eo e a * e * e e * » e s e ° e s 
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Aimu Hunters Bartering Seals, . .. ss © « « 
Tage from Pribilof Seels Recovered in Japanese Waters 
Amendments 
in 192930, 
Taukimbo~sen, the Type: of Vessel Developed by the Japanese for Bunting 
Porpoises and Seale ....« «eee see ee cee seesenesenese 
Distrilution and Migration of North Pacific Fur Seale . ... «6» ee ee 
Recoveries in Japanese Waters of Fur Seals Banded on-the Pribilof Ielends 
fags from Pribilof Seals Recovered in Japanese Waters in 1943 end 1949, . 
Pur Seal Wintering Area Near Japan. . . 1 2. «ee eee es eee sees 
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